CMMC Readiness
Independent CMMC readiness consulting for the defense industrial base. We assess your current posture against the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification framework, close the gaps, and produce the documentation an assessor will accept—so you arrive at your formal C3PAO review prepared.
Why CMMC Matters Now
If your organization handles Federal Contract Information (FCI) or Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) for a Department of Defense contract—directly or as a subcontractor—CMMC is no longer optional. The Department of Defense has formalized CMMC as a contractual requirement, and primes are increasingly flowing it down to every tier of the supply chain.
Achieving and proving compliance is not a one-time effort. CMMC requires sustained, documented controls that map cleanly to NIST SP 800-171 and produce the evidence package a third-party assessor (C3PAO) will examine. Hayashi Technology Solutions builds that program for you, operates it day to day, and keeps it ready for assessment.
What Hayashi Technology Solutions is—and is not. We are independent IT and cybersecurity consultants. We are not a Certified Third-Party Assessment Organization (C3PAO), we are not a Registered Practitioner Organization (RPO), and we do not issue CMMC certifications. Our role is to prepare your environment, documentation, and team for the formal C3PAO assessment—and to remain alongside you during it.
What Is Included
Scope and Boundary Definition
Identify where FCI and CUI live, how they flow, who touches them, and which systems are in scope. A clean boundary is the single most important step—over-scoping inflates cost and effort, under-scoping fails assessment.
Gap Assessment Against the Required Level
Practice-by-practice review against CMMC Level 1, Level 2, or Level 3 requirements as appropriate for your contract obligations. Findings are documented, scored, and prioritized by remediation effort and compliance impact.
Remediation Roadmap and Implementation
Hands-on closure of the gaps that matter: identity hardening, access controls, audit logging, encryption, incident response, configuration management, and the other technical controls CMMC requires. Delivered on a defined timeline, not as a long consulting engagement.
System Security Plan (SSP)
Authoritative documentation describing how each required control is implemented in your environment. Written to the level of detail an assessor expects, kept current as the environment evolves, and structured so future audits start from a known baseline.
Plan of Action & Milestones (POA&M)
For any control not fully met at assessment time, a documented and tracked remediation plan with owners, dependencies, and target dates—the artifact that lets you proceed with a conditional certification where the framework allows it.
Policies, Procedures, and Evidence Library
The supporting documentation an assessor will request: information security policy, access control procedure, incident response plan, configuration management standard, and the evidence (screenshots, logs, exports, attestations) that proves each control is operating.
Ongoing Compliance Operations
CMMC is not a project that finishes. We monitor controls, refresh evidence on the cadence the framework expects, run the required annual self-assessments, and keep the SSP and POA&M current as your environment changes.
Assessor Coordination and Pre-Assessment
The Certified Third-Party Assessment Organization (C3PAO) is the independent body that performs the formal CMMC review—not us. When you are ready, we help you select a C3PAO, coordinate the engagement, run an internal mock assessment first, and sit alongside your team during the official assessment so questions are answered with the right evidence in hand.
Which CMMC Level Do You Need?
CMMC is tiered. The level you must meet is determined by your contract and the type of government information you handle, not by the size of your business. We confirm the required level during the assessment phase so you do not over-invest in controls you do not need or under-prepare for the ones you do.
Level 1 — Foundational
For organizations handling Federal Contract Information (FCI) but not CUI. Seventeen basic safeguarding practices, verified through annual self-assessment.
Level 2 — Advanced
For organizations handling Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). One hundred ten practices aligned to NIST SP 800-171, verified through self-assessment or a third-party assessment by a C3PAO, depending on the contract.
Level 3 — Expert
For organizations handling the most sensitive CUI on programs with the highest risk. Additional practices drawn from NIST SP 800-172, with government-led assessment.
Our Approach
1. Scope
Define exactly where FCI and CUI live so the boundary is correct and the assessment effort is focused on the systems that actually matter.
2. Assess
Practice-by-practice gap analysis against the required CMMC level, with findings prioritized by remediation effort and compliance impact.
3. Remediate
Implement the technical and procedural controls required by the framework, on a defined timeline and against a fixed cost where the work is well-bounded.
4. Document
Produce the SSP, POA&M, policies, procedures, and evidence library that prove the controls exist and are operating.
5. Sustain
Ongoing operations: monitoring, evidence refresh, annual self-assessment, and assessor coordination when the formal review comes due.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do we actually need CMMC if we are a subcontractor?
Almost certainly yes. Primes are required to flow CMMC obligations down to subcontractors that handle FCI or CUI in performance of the contract. The level you need is set by what kind of information you handle, not your role in the chain.
How long does CMMC readiness take?
For organizations starting near the baseline, Level 2 readiness typically runs six to twelve months from assessment through documentation. Organizations with a more mature security program may move faster; those starting from scratch may need longer. We confirm the timeline after the gap assessment.
Are you CMMC-certified yourselves (RPO, C3PAO, etc.)?
No. Hayashi Technology Solutions is not a Certified Third-Party Assessment Organization (C3PAO) and not a Registered Practitioner Organization (RPO). We are independent IT and cybersecurity consultants. We do not issue CMMC certifications, and we do not perform the formal assessment that grants them—the framework deliberately separates the people who prepare you from the people who certify you. Our job is the preparation: scoping, gap analysis, control implementation, documentation, evidence collection, and standing alongside your team during the C3PAO’s formal review.
What if we are already on Microsoft 365 or Azure—does that help?
Yes, with caveats. The Microsoft GCC and GCC High environments are designed to support FCI and CUI handling. Commercial Microsoft 365 can support some CMMC requirements but is generally not appropriate for CUI. We confirm tenant suitability and plan migrations where needed as part of scoping.
Can you provide a fixed price?
The gap assessment is a fixed-fee engagement. Remediation and ongoing operations are scoped after the assessment, when the actual work is known. We do not provide a fixed price for unbounded compliance work because the result is either overpriced or under-delivered.
How does this differ from your standard Cybersecurity service?
Our standard cybersecurity program covers the controls themselves—EDR, MFA, monitoring, patching. CMMC Readiness adds the framework-specific scoping, gap assessment, SSP/POA&M production, and ongoing evidence operations required to prove those controls to a federal assessor.
Ready to Get Assessment-Ready?
Schedule a CMMC Readiness Assessment. We will confirm the level your contracts require, identify the gaps in your current environment, and give you a clear, fixed-fee path to assessment-ready—before you spend another dollar on the wrong controls.